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Postby Felonius_Monk » Tue Aug 02, 2005 6:41 pm

Just checked the account I was talking about where I had less than I thought... there are 4 very unusual entries on my statement; £100 has been withdrawan from my account in "Adjustments". Without any apparent reason, or explanation to me. I have emailed the site about this and suffice to say I will be raising hell with them if it's not sorted soon.

Hopefully this is just some serious error but the possibility that £100 could've been removed from my account by "mistake" if I hadn't spotted this is severely worrying. Haven't had this problem before but if there's not an appropriate explanation and very rapid reimbursement of the money with an apology I will be informing the site in question that I will be publicising this mistake on internet forums and doing my level best to cause them as much deserved adverse publicity as possible.

Anyhow, not jumping to any conclusions just yet, though suffice to say I am not happy about this in any way at all. We'll see what they have to say. If they mess me about at all I will be posting the identity and any correspondence fro site X here, on 2+2, UPF and cease recommending them to people.

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Postby Felonius_Monk » Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:24 pm

STILL no response from site X, almost 24 hours after the crime. I have now emailed the cashier company, the pokersites cashier dept. and the floor manager. I have been informed they are recieving a lot of requests etc, however, and , well, hurry the fuck up guys!

Oh, and I won't be playing tonight because I'm going out with a friend for some beers. Tally ho!

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A licky boom boom down.
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A licky boom boom down." - Snow, 1993
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Postby joewatch » Wed Aug 03, 2005 10:34 pm

Why don't you try calling?
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Postby Felonius_Monk » Thu Aug 04, 2005 6:02 pm

Well, had an interesting day really.

I went to work, despite the incidence of the second England vs Australia test match in the cricket today. We were doing well, so I managed to swing the afternoon off and go to my mates house to watch the last few hours. Fun stuff.

On the downside, I got a shitty email or two from the website that took £100 unsolicited out of my account without telling me. £50 was the removal of an unclaimed casino bonus (fair enough) but for some reason it seemed they've done it twice and thus removed £50 of MY money, and despite having explained the situation twice, all I get is crap, anonymous emails from customer support.

If this scandalous situation continues, following my final email to the poker manager, I will withdraw my money from the site and post the identity and full story of what (at best) is a highly unprofessional treatment of me and (at worst) tantamount to what could be construed as underhand appropriation of funds that belong to me. I have mentioned to the site that I'm a well-known poster on some online forums and have referred several people to the site as I've enjoyed playing there in the past. I won't be referring anyone there any more, but hopefully I'll get my money back and they'll save themselves from me having to air my dirty laundry with them in public...

Anyway, onto business... tonight I put in 2 and a half hours or so on the tables, I had intended to play the 5pmish WCOOP rebuy satellite at Stars but got kinda distracted by a pretty rotten start on the tables; I was only $350-400 or so down, but it was frustrating that I didn't really play any big pots (my biggest single-hand loss all night was only $100 of my cash), but every move I tried to make failed; I got re-raised on semi-bluffs and had to lay down a couple of times, and a few +EV draws missed out, so within half an hour I was stuck two $200 buyins over the 7 tables I was playing.

I recovered a bit and won my first significant pot over an hour into the session, as I lead out with top set in a $100PLO game, got raised, shoved in my stack and won it against a draw. From then on, I decided to shelve a few of the increasingly tight Stars PLO games and pick up some PLO8 on Empire. Really good move because I felt right at home as I sat down on a loose $200 table and a $100 and made $300 profit over the next hour and a half, with one very lucky high win after I pushed in a big semi-bluff with a made nut low and a single pair against two opponents, got called in two spots, hit my 3 outer for high and took 3/4 of a $500 pot. I then managed to get all in preflop against a short stack with AA26ss (I called in EP, sensible move as I'm usually stupidly tempted to raise here and end up getting into trouble too often by being aggressive on the flop against calling stations, and the $80 stack re-raised from the button, I pushed and hit trip 6s and nut low for the scoop), and then, first hand with an early post on a $200 table (where I'd bought in for $86 by accident) I found AA79ss, not a great hand but wth such a short stack I was able to get about 65% of my chips in after someone raised, so I did, forced out the other callers, we got all in and I won with trip 7s and no low possible after he tabled A2JKds.

After that, I picked up some PLO hands here and there, and played a pretty good game (I think). I even won a $40 pot with a pair of 7s which was fun.

Although the last half hour was a major cold card run and I shipped a few chips on early streets in PLO, I finished with a lucky hit in PLO8 which added another $100 pot, and ended up cashing in a $200 winner for the session, a nice $500-600 turnaround from my early session troubles. Got to be happy with that performance.

I did miss the WCOOP satellite tonight, but it was nice to add some cash to the BR solidly after last month's problems, and I have the $100 Interpoker bonus and $120 stars bonus to come in the next day or two to add to the £15 I picked up at william hill today.

OK, so here's the monthly $, not including the £50 ($90-odd) stolen from one of my accounts by incompetent site staff....

$450
8 hours played
$56/hr

Solid but unspectacular start to the month, though I feel I'm playing relatively well, still not 100% up to speed and probably being too gun-shy on small pots still, and making the odd mistake. No-ones perfect I guess.

Oh, and today my attempt to upload my last 3k hands from crypto failed miserably... no idea why but i guess i'll look into it when I have time. Still not used PTO enough since I got it, but one of these days :wink: ....

Monk
xxxxx
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Postby Felonius_Monk » Sun Aug 07, 2005 5:47 pm

The Monkman J[c]

"Informer, you no say daddy me snow me Ill go blame,
A licky boom boom down.
Detective mon said daddy me snow me stab someone down the lane,
A licky boom boom down." - Snow, 1993
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Postby Kuso » Sun Aug 07, 2005 11:29 pm

i think you can still register for the party bonus until Wednesday (iirc)... BONUSAUG, 20% max $100, $500 deposit for max bonus.

also, i think you have 1 week from when you deposit with the bonus code to clear the bonus, so no need to rush it.
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Postby joewatch » Mon Aug 08, 2005 5:01 pm

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Postby Felonius_Monk » Mon Aug 08, 2005 5:22 pm

The Monkman J[c]

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A licky boom boom down.
Detective mon said daddy me snow me stab someone down the lane,
A licky boom boom down." - Snow, 1993
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Postby piersmajestyk » Mon Aug 08, 2005 5:31 pm

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Postby Felonius_Monk » Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:18 pm

Well, played 2 hours tonight but it was about the dullest session I can ever remember. Didn't get involved in any big hands, just lost a lot of small ones! Really forgetting what it feels like to win consistently and really haven't got back "into" poker since my ugly run through the end of June and start of July. The tables seem generally OK but it seems a lot harder to make money for me at the moment...

Anyhow, dropped $125 tonight, though it woulda been more like $250 if I hadn't picked up $120 bonus at stars. I've got $100 to come at both Interpoker and Party, plus my Empire rake rebate, in the next few days, so hopefully I can kickstart my month a bit with that. Right now though it's all a bit depressingly dull in pokerland, but it's time I hit the sack I think!

$325
13 hours played
$25/hr

Once more, I'm running very close to break even without the benefit of bonuses!
The Monkman J[c]

"Informer, you no say daddy me snow me Ill go blame,
A licky boom boom down.
Detective mon said daddy me snow me stab someone down the lane,
A licky boom boom down." - Snow, 1993
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Postby Felonius_Monk » Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:47 pm

Well, I know I should make a bit more effort to update this and all but at the moment poker doesn't really feel like a priority, lots of other things going on and when I do play, I'm still stuck in this unbelievable rut that stretches back 2 months now. That's the last time I say "Well, I'm probably due a bad run some time" when I'm in the middle of a strong month.... following that fateful statement I've had a total of ONE big winning session in 2 months (a $1.1k in 2 hours rush on the E200 tables), and lots of ugly beats, cold cards, cold tables and, ultimately, no appetite or great interest in poker.

Had to force myself to put an hour in tonight, ended up spreading out into 2 hours and I lost about $350, which has been about the sum total of my winnings on the tables for August, although I haven't really played many hours. Whilst the break I took before got me back into things, poker at the moment seems to be one long break and i'm struggling to find much time to play in between being tired from work and wasting time on other activities like watching cricket or going out. To be honest I'm not really missing it at the moment. Mood at the moment from poker is at an all-time low I guess, just a general malaise and a pretty lackadaisical attitude, and what's more, the worrying thing is that I don't really care. I've even stopped updating my pokertracker and my poker records, all my winnings and losses for the month are scrawled on some bits of paper at present...

Hopefully something will get me going again soon. I could do with the money as it looks like I'll be moving into my new place towards the end of September, and won't have much time to play then. Won't have much time to play this next week though because I'm travelling up to Scotland for a short holiday, will be going to a concert, going walking in the highlands with my sister, and, if I find the time, meeting up with my (admittedly rather tasty) friend and ex-girlfriend, who's invited me to go sailing with her over the weekend. Unfortunately, already got hotels booked with my sis and alternative plans so might have to miss out on that one, grrrr, but anyways, I digress into material not necessarily appropriate to a poker journal! Still, never stopped me before...

Monthly figures:
$720
Hours - who knows, I'm guessing maybe 22???
$33/hr

Not the worst now I look at it, but about $600 or something of that is bonuses. Oh well. I need to play more hours but in my current mood it's hard to be bothered to!

Monk
xxxxx
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"Informer, you no say daddy me snow me Ill go blame,
A licky boom boom down.
Detective mon said daddy me snow me stab someone down the lane,
A licky boom boom down." - Snow, 1993
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Postby Molina » Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:35 pm

Would you say the PLO on Crypto has perceptibly tightened since the lower limit tables?

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Postby Felonius_Monk » Wed Aug 17, 2005 2:39 pm

The Monkman J[c]

"Informer, you no say daddy me snow me Ill go blame,
A licky boom boom down.
Detective mon said daddy me snow me stab someone down the lane,
A licky boom boom down." - Snow, 1993
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Postby Molina » Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:18 pm

Stopped playing the crypto's myself after taking a complete, never ending, battering on the 6-max, currently on Party with one Pacific table always on the go. If I could get all my play done a Pacific I would, the idea of buying 3 more computers is tempting...

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Postby joewatch » Sat Sep 03, 2005 11:15 pm

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